activity report 1617 - Uni Ulm

Activity Report 2016–2017Institute of Communications Engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin BossertProf. Dr.-Ing. Robert FischerProf. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Minker

A NACHRICHTENTECHNIK

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Herausgeber:

Institut für Nachrichtentechnik

Universität Ulm

Albert-Einstein-Allee 43

89081 Ulm

Germany

Telefon: +49(0)731/50-31501

Fax: +49(0)731/50-31509

E-Mail: [email protected]

Web: nt.uni-ulm.de

Stand:

Dezember 2017

Contents

Preface 2

1 People 3

2 Visitors and Visits 5

3 Lectures 7

4 Research 114.1 Research Topics 11

4.2 Research Projects 13

5 Publications 16

6 Seminars 27

7 Ph.D. Theses 307.1 Supervised Ph.D. Theses 30

7.2 Co-Supervised Ph.D. Theses 31

8 Theses 328.1 Master Theses 32

8.2 Bachelor Theses 33

9 Academics 35

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Preface

The institute for Communications Engineering was founded in October 2011 by the

union of the two former institutes Information Technology and Telecommunicationsand Applied Information Theory (Siemens donation chair). It provides research and

teaching for several courses of study in the area of communications within the fac-

ulty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Psychology of the Ulm Univer-sity. Since 2014 the institute is largely responsible for the international Master Course

Communications Technology. Research areas and offered lectures and labs range from

physical-layer methods over reliable and secure information transmission in time and

space, up to man-machine interfaces.

The present report covers all activities of members of our institute from January 2016

through December 2017.

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1 People

Professors

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Bossert [email protected]. Dr.-Ing. Robert Fischer [email protected]. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Minker [email protected]

Associated and Retired Professors

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe-Carsten Fiebig [email protected]. Dr. Hans Peter Großmann [email protected]. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Lindner [email protected]

Secretary

Michaela Baumann [email protected] Hägele [email protected] Walter (until 09/16)

Technical Staff

Werner Birkle [email protected]. (FH) Werner Hack [email protected] Schewe [email protected]

Lecturers

Dr.-Ing. Dejan Lazich retiredProf. Dr. Max Riederle Hochschule UlmProf. Dr.-Ing. Georg Schmidt Hochschule Esslingen

Senior Researchers

Dr. Vahid Forutan (until 12/17)Dr. rer. nat. Florian Nothdurft (until 01/17)Dr.-Ing. Katharina Schilling (until 02/16)Dr. Dr. rer. nat. Roman Sergienko (until 11/16)Dr. rer. nat. Werner Teich [email protected]. Henning Zörlein (until 04/16)

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Activity Report 2016–2017

Research Assistants

Oleg Akhtiamov, M.Sc. [email protected]

Patricia Braunger, M.Sc. [email protected]

Zaid Dhannoon, M.Sc. [email protected]

Dmitrii Fedotov, M.Sc. [email protected]

Dipl.-Ing. Martin Frassl [email protected]

Dipl.-Ing. Felix Frey [email protected]

Dipl.-Ing. Günther Haas [email protected]

Denis Ivanko, M.Sc. [email protected]

Katharina Juhnke, M.Sc. (until 07/16)

Eleni Kamateri, M.Sc. [email protected]

Dipl.-Ing. David Kracht (until 04/16)

Matthias Kraus, M.Sc. [email protected]

Jakob Landesberger, M.Sc. [email protected]

Juliana Miehle, M.Sc. [email protected]

Mostafa Hosni Mohamed, M.Sc. (until 09/17)

Sven Müelich, M.Sc. [email protected]

Johannes Pfeiffer, M.Sc. [email protected]

Louisa Pragst, M.Sc. [email protected]

Dipl.-Inf. Florian Pregizer (until 07/16)

Sven Puchinger, B.Sc., B.Sc. [email protected]

Niklas Rach, M.Sc. [email protected]

Alexei Romanenko, M.Sc. [email protected]

Michael Schelling, M.Sc. (until 12/17)

Maria Schmidt, M.Sc. [email protected]

Dipl.-Ing. Martin Schüssel [email protected]

Maxim Sidorov, M.Sc. (until 08/16)

Dipl.-Ing. Susanne Sparrer [email protected]

Anastasiia Spirina, M.Sc. [email protected]

Sebastian Stern, M.Sc. [email protected]

Daniela Stier, M.Sc. [email protected]

Dmitrii Ubskii, M.Sc. [email protected]

Sabine Wieluch, M.Sc. [email protected]

Arthur Witt, M.Sc. (until 08/17)

George Yammine, M.Sc. [email protected]

Sebastian Zepf, M.Sc. [email protected]

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2 Visitors and Visits

Visiting Scholars

Serbia

Marijana Grujovic 06/2016

University of Helsinki, Finland

Prof. Kristiina Jokinen 06/2016

University of Granada, Spain

Prof. Zoraida Callejas Carrión 06/2016

Micron Technology, USA

Dr. Yingquan Wu 07/2016

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Prof. Ulrich Speidel 10/2016, 12/2016

University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

Jessalyn Bolkema 11/2016

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Prof. Dr. Johan Rosenkilde 12/2016

Constance University of Applied Scienes, Germany

Mohammed Rajab 04/2017–07/2017

University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa

Dr. Ing. Jaco Versfeld 07/2017

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Prof. Li Chen 07/2017

Nara University of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan

Kiyoshiro Sugiyama 10/2017–12/2017

ITMO University of Saint Petersburg, Russia

Denis Ivanko 10/2017–03/2018

ITMO University of Saint Petersburg, Russia

Alexei Romanenko 10/2017–03/2018


Yuki Matsuda 10/2017–09/2018

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Yuta Takahashi 11/2017–12/2017


Kazuma Nagano 11/2017–12/2017

Cambridge University, UK

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Ultes 12/2017

Research Stays at other Universities

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Martin Bossert 01/2016

Technical University of Denmark, Kopenhagen, Denmark

Sven Puchinger 03/2016

Technion — Israel Insititute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Sven Puchinger 05/2016

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3 Lectures

A detailed description of the modules is available online.

Advanced Channel Coding (English) Master 2L/1E

Symbol-by-Symbol APP Decoding; Iterative Decoding of Concatenated Codes;

LDPC Codes; Algebraic List Decoding

Angewandte Mathematik für Ingenieure (German) Master 3L/1E

(Applied Mathematics for Engineers)

Stochastic Processes; Normal Forms of Matrices and their Application in System

Theory; Special Functions (e.g., Bessel Functions) and their Application; Algebraic

Structurs (e.g., Finite Fields)

Applied Information Theory (English) Master 3L/2E/1P

Uncertainty (Entropy); Mutual Information; Source Coding Theorem; Source Cod-

ing Schemes (Shannon–Fano, Huffman, Tunstall, Arithmetic Coding); Universal

Source Coding (Lempel–Ziv, Elias–Willems); Channel Capacity and Channel Cod-

ing Theorem; Gaussian Channel; Random Coding; Multi-User Information The-

ory; Dirty Paper Coding; Tomlinson–Harashima Precoding; Information Theory

and Cryptology

Benutzerschnittstellen (German) Bachelor/Master 2L/2S

(User Interfaces)

Introduction into the area of human-computer interaction (HCI); Focus: design

and development principles of multimodal user interfaces; Usability engineering

and evaluation of multimodal user interfaces

Channel Coding (English) Master 3L/2E/1P

Block Codes (BCH, Reed–Solomon, Reed–Muller, Hamming, Simplex, Golay);

Decoding Algorithms (Majority Logic, Algebraic, Soft, Hard, GMD); Convolu-

tional Codes and Decoding (Viterbi, Fano, Zigangirov–Jelinek); Generalized Code

Concatenation; Coded Modulation

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http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/nt/teaching


Communications Engineering Seminar (German/English) Master 2S

Each semester a current, changing topic from the fields of Communications En-

gineering, Digital Transmission, Information Theory, Coding Theory, and Signal

Processing and its related disciplines is addressed.

Communication Systems (English) Master 2L/1E

Mobile Radio Channel; Basics of Mobile Communication Systems; GSM and

UMTS

Compressed Sensing (English) Master 2L/1E

Geometry of N Dimensions; Geometrical Interpretation of Systems of Linear Equa-

tions; Convex Polytopes; Arrangements of Hyperplanes; Approximation Theory;

Distance Measures in Banach Spaces; Optimization and Linear Programing; Sam-

pling by Compressed Sensing; Data Acquisition by Compressed Sensing

Dialogue Systems (German) Master 2L/2E

Introduction into the area of multimodal spoken natural language dialogue sys-

tems; Focus: Acoustic Processing; Speech Signal Analysis; Speech Recognition;

Spoken Natural Language Understanding; Dialogue Processing and Speech Syn-

thesis

Dialogue Systems Project (German/English) Master 4–6S

Multimodal spoken language dialogue systems; component development; practi-

cal studies; evaluation

Dialogue Systems Proseminar (German/English) Bachelor 2S

Participants deal with current topics in Spoken Dialogue Systems research.

Dialogue Systems Seminar (German/English) Bachelor 2S

Participants deal with current topics in Spoken Dialogue Systems research.

Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Dialogue Systems Project(for Cognitive Systems) (English) Master 6S

Spoken dialogue systems development; human factor studies; human-centred de-

sign approach; practical studies; evaluation

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Institute of Communications Engineering

Digital Communications (English) Master 4L/2E

Equivalent Complex Baseband; Pulse-Amplitude Modulation (PAM); Variants of

PAM Transmission Schemes; Signal-Space Representation; Digital Frequency and

Phase Modulation; Channel Models; Equalization of Dispersive Channels; Or-

thogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)

Digital Communications LAB (English) Master 4P

M. Introduction to MATLAB; 1. Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation; 2. Imple-

mentation of PAM Transmission in MATLAB; 3. Variants of PAM Transmission

Schemes; 4. Noncoherent Reception; 5. Signal Space Representation

Einführung in die Nachrichtentechnik (German) Bachelor 3L/2E/2P

(Introduction to Communication Engineering)

History and Milestones of Communications; Models in Communications; Shan-

nons Uncertainty and Source Coding; Signals for Transmission of Information

Channels; Decision Theory; Error Probabilty; Channel Coding Theorem; Error

Correcting Codes; Reliable Data Transmission; Multiple Access; Routing; Security

Embedded Security (German/English) Master 3L/1E

Implementation and Side-Channel Attacks in Cryptology; Countermeasures to Im-

plementation Attacks; Arithmetic for Cryptographic Hardware; Random Number

Generators; Physical Unclonable Functions; Digital Tachograph System; Secure

Software Download for Electronic Control Units in Cars

Iterative Methods for Wireless Communications (English) Master 2L/1E

Fix-Point Iteration; Convergence and Convergence Rate of Iterative Methods; Vec-

tor-Valued Transmission; (Iterative) Vector Equalization; Probability Theory for It-

erative Decoding; Tanner Graph; Low-Density Parity Check Codes; BCJR Algo-

rithm; Turbo Codes; Iterative Joint Demapping, Equalization, and Decoding (Turbo

Equalization)

Mathematik der digitalen Medien (German) Bachelor 2L/1E

Navigation (correlation, random sequences); Mobile phone (channel estimation,

convolutional codes); MP3 (digital signal processing); CD (error correction); DVD

(source coding); Internet (routing, crypto)

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Multiuser Communications and MIMO Systems (English) Master 3L/1E

MIMO Communications; Performance Criteria; Introduction to Lattices; Lattice

Decoding and the “Sphere Decoder”; Equalization via Lattice Reduction; “Writ-

ing on Dirty Paper”; Multiuser Communications; Advanced Transmitter-Side Tech-

niques; Interference Channel

Research Trends in Dialogue Systems Seminar (German/English) Master 2S

Participants deal with current topics in Spoken Dialogue Systems research

Satellite Communications and Navigation (English) Master 2L/1E

History, Development, and Potential of Satellite Communications; Satellite Orbits;

Launch and Installation in Orbit; Modulation and Multiple Access; Satellite Chan-

nel; Link Budget Calculations; Mobile Satellite Communication Systems; Satellite

Navigation

Seminar zur Industriepraxis (German/English) Bachelor/Master 3S

Subject-related knowledge and experience from professional practice; experience

the business of a typical workday; carry out typical engineering tasks in research

and development, quality control, and technical distribution; gain insight into

modern techniques and facilities for development and fabrication of electric, elec-

tronic, mechatronic and mechanical devices as well as software and hardware

components and systems; learn typical operating procedures and organization in

industry, as well as the social structure in companies

Signal Theory (German) Master 2L/2E

Part I: Stochastic Signals: Random Variables and their Characterization; Principles

of Estimation; Stochastic Processes and their Characterization; Mean-Square Esti-

mation and Ergodicity; Part II: Deterministic Signals: Sampling and Interpolation;

Principles of Compressed Sensing

Signale und Systeme (German) Bachelor 3L/2E/2T/1P

(Signals and Systems)

Discrete Signals and Systems; z-Transformation; Generalized Functions and Distri-

butions; Continuous Signals and Systems; Fourier-Transformation; Sampling Theo-

rem; Fast Fourier Transform; Laplace-Transformation its Application to Continuous

LTI Systems; Stochastic Processes

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4 Research

4.1 Research Topics

The research carried out at the institute is divided into the subsequent four groups.

Algebraic Coding Theory

Block and convolutional codes for error correction and detection over Hamming, rank,

and combinatorial metrics are constructed and analyzed. The main focus is also on the

soft- and hard-decision and list decoding of these code classes. Especially soft-decision

decoding of Reed-Solomon codes is an important research area. The applications are

random linear network coding, storage coding, compressed sensing, interleaved codes,

concatenated codes, and hybrid ARQ protocols. Recently, the application of algebraic

coding for cryptology was started.

Communication Theory

The members of the Communication Theory group address the challenges of next-

generation communications systems. The main focus is on the mathematical and the-

oretical foundations of communication and signal processing schemes. This includes

equalization methods and the utilization of interference in multiantenna and multiuser

systems, in particular, via precoding. The problems caused by nonlinearities in the

transmission channel, both, the peak-power problem (e.g., in OFDM transmission), as

well as nonlinear transmission media (e.g., fiber optics) are addressed. Moreover, the

structure of signal is exploited, e.g., via compressed sensing methods, and transmis-

sion schemes without any channel knowledge are designed. Finally, security aspects,

in particular physical-layer security via coded modulation, are treated.

Dialogue Systems

The Dialogue Systems Group has placed its general research focus on the develop-

ment and evaluation of user-friendly Spoken Language Dialogue Systems (SLDS). This

objective is based on the following major aspects: adaptive dialogue management,

assistiveness as well as evaluation and usability issues.

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The Dialogue Systems Group is joint founder of the intersdisciplinary Competence

Center Perception and Interactive Technologies. Research groups from Ulm University

aim at developing innovative technologies in different application domains and set-

tings for the human-computer interaction. Major research areas include sensor-based

models for perception, learning mechanisms and adaptivity, interactive systems in net-

worked applications, ubiquitous computing, multimedia and visualization as well as

spoken language dialogue systems interaction and multimodality. The center proposes

a framework for fundamental and applied research and combines different interdisci-

plinary issues.

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4.2 Research Projects

DFG Projects (German Research Council)

During 2016–2017 the following projects were supported by the German Research

Council “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (DFG).1

Assistives und adaptives Dialogmanagement

Project Leader: Minker, Grant: SFB Transregio 62 TP B01

Duration: 96 months, Begin: February 2009

Finding New Overlapping Genes and their Theory (FOG-Theory)

Project Leader: Bossert, Grant: Bo 867/23-2 (SPP InKoMBio)

Duration: 60 months, Begin: January 2010

Coordination Project InKoMBio

Project Leader: Bossert, Grant: Bo 867/31-3


Interrelations between Channel Coding and Precoding in TransmissionStrategies for Broadcast Channels and in Network Coding

Project Leader: Bossert, Grant: Bo 867/29-3 (SPP COIN), cooperation with Profs.

Fischer and Huber

Duration: 24 months, Begin: October 2013

Interrelations between Channel Coding and Precoding in TransmissionStrategies for Broadcast Channels and in Network Coding

Project Leader: Fischer, Grant: Fi 982/4-3 (SPP COIN), cooperation with Profs.

Bossert and Huber


Rang-Metrik in der Codierungstheorie und immaschinellen Lernen

Project Leader: Bossert, Grant: Bo 867/32-1


Verbesserte und zuverlässige RNA-Sequenzierung: Einzelzell-Transkriptomik zur Analyse bakterieller Individualität

Project Leader: Bossert, Grant: Bo 867/30-1 (SPP InKoMBio)


1SPP: “Schwerpunktprogramm” (priority project); SFB: “Sonderforschungsbereich” (SFB).13


Diskret-wertige, dünn besetzte Signale: Theorie, Algorithmen und Anwen-dungen

Project Leader: Fischer, Grant: Fi 982/8-1, cooperation with Profs. Kutyniok and

Pfander


Komplexwertige Reed-Solomon Codes für deterministisches CompressedSensing

Project Leader: Bossert, Grant: Bo 867/35-1 (SFB Compressed Sensing in der

Informationsverarbeitung)

Duration: 36 months, Begin: June 2015

Aufwandsgünstige HF-Frontends und inkohärente Detektionsverfahrenfür “Massive MIMO”

Project Leader: Fischer, Grant: Fi 982/12-1, cooperation with Prof. Waldschmidt

Duration: 36 months, Begin: December 2015

Lipschitz Integers für Codierte Modulation und Vorcodierung

Project Leader: Fischer, Grant: Fi 982/13-1, cooperation with Prof. Freudenberger

Duration: 36 months, Begin: December 2015

Codierte Modulation, optimierte Decoder und Entzerrer für faseroptischeKanäle

Project Leader: Fischer, Grant: Fi 982/14-1, copperation with Dr. J. Fischer

Duration: 36 months, Begin: February 2016

Do it yourself, but not alone: Companion-Technologie für die Heimwerker-unterstützung

Project Leader: Minker, Grant: SFB Transregio 62


Mit Argumenten begeistern — Verbesserung der Überzeugungskraft vonvirtuellen Argumenten

Project Leader: Minker, Grant: Mi 741/8-1

Duration: 36 months, Begin: September 2017

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BMBF Projects (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)

EUREKA-Projekt SENDATE-Secure-DCI (SEcure Networking for a DATa cen-ter cloud in Europe— Sichere und flexible Datenzentrums-Interkonnekti-vität)Code- und Lattice-basierte Sicherheitskonzepte auf der physikalischenSchicht und für „post-quantum”-Kryptographie

Project Leader: Fischer, Grant: 16K/S0483


EU — Horizon 2020

KRISTINA: A Knowledge-Based Information Agent with Social Competenceand Human Interaction Capabilities

Project Leader: Minker, Grant: HORIZON 2020-LEIT-ICT 22 - 2014

Duration: 36 months, Begin: March 2015

Industry Project

Lower-Power-Mobile TV Tuner Architecture

Project Leader: Fischer, Grant: Sony Deutschland GmbH Stuttgart


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5 Publications

The publications are sorted according to the respective professor, which coincides with

the research topics (Bossert: Groups A and B; Fischer: Group C; Minker: Group D).

Publications by Prof. Bossert’s Group

Books and Book Chapters

[1] Martin Bossert, editor. Information- and Communication Theory in Molecular

Biology, Springer Verlag, 2018. ISBN: 978-3-319-54729-9.

Journal and Conference Papers

[1] Peter Beelen, Sven Puchinger, and Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen. Twisted Reed–

Solomon Codes. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT),2017.

[2] Yuval Cassuto, Evyatar Hemo, Sven Puchinger, and Martin Bossert. Multi-Block

Interleaved Codes for Local and Global Read Access. In IEEE International Sym-posium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2017.

[3] Mostafa H. Mohamed, Sven Puchinger, and Martin Bossert. Guruswami–Sudan

List Decoding for Complex Reed-Solomon Codes. In International ITG Confer-ence on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC), 2017.

[4] Sven Müelich and Martin Bossert. Applying convolutional codes to key extraction

using ring oscillator pufs. In 8th International Workshop on Optimal Codes andRelated Topics (OCRT), Sofia, Bulgaria. VDE, 2017.

[5] Sven Müelich and Martin Bossert. A new error correction scheme for physical

unclonable functions. In SCC 2017; Proceedings of 11th International ITG Con-ference on Systems, Communications and Coding, Hamburg, Germany, pages

1–6. VDE, 2017.

[6] Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger, and Martin Bossert. Low-Rank Matrix Recovery

using Gabidulin Codes in Characteristic Zero. Electronic Notes in Discrete Math-ematics, 57:161–166, 2017.

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[7] Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger, David Mödinger, and Martin Bossert. An Alter-

native Decoding Method for Gabidulin Codes in Characteristic Zero. In IEEEInternational Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pages 2549–2553, 2016.

[8] Sven Puchinger, Irene Bouw, and Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen. Improved Power

Decoding of One-Point Hermitian Codes. In International Workshop on Codingand Cryptography, 2017.

[9] Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, and Martin Bossert. On the Success Probability of

Decoding (Partial) Unit Memory Codes. In International Workshop on OptimalCodes and Related Topics, 2017.

[10] Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, Karim Ishak, and Martin Bossert. Code-Based

Cryptosystems Using Generalized Concatenated Codes. In Ilias S. Kotsireas and

Edgar Martínez-Moro, editors, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics:Applications of Computer Algebra: Kalamata, Greece, July 20–23 2015, volume

198, pages 397–423. Springer International Publishing, 2017.

[11] Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, David Mödinger, Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen,

and Martin Bossert. Decoding interleaved Gabidulin codes using Alekhnovich’s

algorithm. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 57:175–180, 2017.

[12] Sven Puchinger, Sven Müelich, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, and Martin Bossert. Tim-

ing Attack Resilient Decoding Algorithms for Physical Unclonable Functions. In

International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding, 2017.

[13] Sven Puchinger, Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen, and John Sheekey. Further Gen-

eralisations of Twisted Gabidulin Codes. In International Workshop on Codingand Cryptography, 2017.

[14] Sven Puchinger and Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen. Decoding of Interleaved Reed–

Solomon Codes Using Improved Power Decoding. In IEEE International Sympo-sium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2017.

[15] Sven Puchinger, Johan Rosenkilde né Nielsen, Wenhui Li, and Vladimir

Sidorenko. Row Reduction Applied to Decoding of Rank-Metric and Subspace

Codes. Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 82(1-2):389–409, 2017.

[16] Sven Puchinger, Sebastian Stern, Martin Bossert, and Robert F.H. Fischer. Space-

Time Codes Based on Rank-Metric Codes and Their Decoding. In IEEE Inter-national Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), pages 125–

130, 2016.

[17] Sven Puchinger and Antonia Wachter-Zeh. Sub-Quadratic Decoding of Gabidulin

Codes. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pages

2554–2558, 2016.

[18] Sven Puchinger and Antonia Wachter-Zeh. Fast Operations on Linearized Polyno-

mials and their Applications in Coding Theory. accepted at: Journal of Symbolic

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Computation, 2017.

[19] Michael Schelling and Martin Bossert. Code constructions based on reed-

solomon codes. OCRT2017, Sofia, 2017.

[20] Ulrich Speidel, Sven Puchinger, and Martin Bossert. Constraints for Coded Tun-

nels Across Long Latency Bottlenecks with ARQ-based Congestion Control. In

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2017.

Publications by Prof. Fischer’s Group


[1] Robert F.H. Fischer, Michael Cyran, Sebastian Stern, Johannes B. Huber. Modulo-

Type Precoding for Networks. In Wolfgang Utschick, editor, Communications inInterference Limited Networks, pp. 31–52. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg,

Feb. 2016.


[1] Michael Cyran, Birgit Schotsch, Johannes B. Huber, Robert F.H. Fischer. Layering

of Communication Networks and a Forward-Backward Duality. In Proceedingsof 11. International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding(SCC), Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 2017.

[2] Sameh Eldessoki, Johannes Dommel, Khaled Shawky, Lars Thiele, Robert F.H.

Fischer. Peak-to-Average-Power Reduction for FBMC-based Systems. In Proceed-ings of International ITG/IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Mar. 2016.

[3] Robert F.H. Fischer, Michael Cyran, Sebastian Stern. Factorization Approaches in

Lattice-Reduction-Aided and Integer-Forcing Equalization. In 2016 InternationalZurich Seminar on Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, Mar. 2016.

[4] Robert F.H. Fischer, Michael Cyran, Vahid Forutan, Johannes B. Huber. Net-

work Coding Security for Bidirectional Network Flows. In Proceedings of 11.International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC),Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 2017.

[5] Vahid Forutan, Robert Elschner, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Colja Schubert,

Robert F.H. Fischer. Towards Information-Theoretic Security in Optical Networks.

In ITG-Fachtagung Photonische Netze, Leipzig, Germany, May 2017.

[6] Felix Frey, Robert Elschner, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Robert Emmerich, Colja

Schubert, Johannes K. Fischer, Robert F.H. Fischer. Investigation of Nonlinear

Inter-channel Interference in Heterogeneous Flexible Optical Networks. In Pro-

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ceedings of 11. International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, andCoding (SCC), Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 2017.

[7] Felix Frey, Florian Wäckerle, Johannes K. Fischer, Robert F.H. Fischer. Optimized

Detection and Decoding of 4D Signals for the Nonlinear Fiber-optical Channel.

In Proceedings Signal Processing in Photonic Communications, New Orleans,

LA, USA, July 2017.

[8] Felix Frey, L Molle, Robert Emmerich, Colja Schubert, Johannes K. Fischer,

Robert F.H. Fischer. Single-step Perturbation-based Nonlinearity Compensation

of Intra- and Inter-Subcarrier Nonlinear Interference. In Proceedings of Euro-pean Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), Gotheburg,

Sweeden, Sep. 2017.

[9] Sven Puchinger, Sebastian Stern, Martin Bossert, Robert F.H. Fischer. Space-

Time Codes Based on Rank-Metric Codes and Their Decoding. In InternationalSymposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Sep. 2016.

[10] Susanne Sparrer, Robert F.H. Fischer. Enhanced Iterative Hard Thresholding for

the Estimation of Discrete-Valued Sparse Signals. In 2016 European Signal Pro-cessing Conference (EUSIPCO 2016), Sep. 2016.

[11] Susanne Sparrer, Robert F.H. Fischer. Algorithms for the Iterative Estimation of

Discrete-Valued Sparse Vectors. In Proceedings of 11. International ITG Confer-ence on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC), Hamburg, Germany, Feb.

2017.

[12] Susanne Sparrer, Robert F.H. Fischer. Unveiling Bias Compensation in Turbo-

Based Algorithms for (Discrete) Compressed Sensing. In 2017 European SignalProcessing Conference (EUSIPCO 2017), Kos, Greece, Sep. 2017.

[13] Hannes Stahl, Jan Mietzner, Martin Kirscht, Robert F.H. Fischer. Sub-Nyquist

Radar with Optimized Sensing Matrices - Performance Evaluation Based on Sim-

ulations and Measurements. In 4th International Workshop on Compressed Sens-ing Theory and its Applications to Radar, Sonar and Remote Sensing, Aachen,

Germany, Sep. 2016.

[14] Sebastian Stern, Robert F.H. Fischer. Joint Algebraic Coded Modulation and

Lattice-Reduction-Aided Preequalisation. IET Electronics Letters, Vol. 52, No. 7,

pp. 523–525, 2016.

[15] Sebastian Stern, Robert F.H. Fischer. Lattice-Reduction-Aided Precoding for

Coded Modulation over Algebraic Signal Constellations. In Proceedings of In-ternational ITG/IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Mar. 2016.

[16] Sebastian Stern, Robert F.H. Fischer. Advanced Factorization Strategies for Lattice-

Reduction-Aided Preequalization. In Proceedings of International Symposium onInformation Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Spain, July 2016.

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[17] Sebastian Stern, Robert F.H. Fischer. Optimal Factorization in Lattice-Reduction-

Aided and Integer-Forcing Linear Equalization. In Proceedings of 11. Interna-tional ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC), Ham-

burg, Germany, Feb. 2017.

[18] Sebastian Stern, Yeicatl Ramos Vazquez, Robert F.H. Fischer. Equalization and

Precoding in Multi-User MIMO Relaying Systems and Their Diversity Bottleneck.

In Proceedings of International ITG/IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA),Berlin, Germany, Mar. 2017.

[19] Sebastian Stern, Robert F.H. Fischer. V-BLAST in Lattice Reduction and Inte-

ger Forcing. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Information Theory(ISIT), Aachen, Germany, July 2017.

[20] Werner Teich, Mennatallah Ibrahim, Florian Wäckerle, Robert F.H. Fischer.

Equalization for Fiber-Optic Transmission Systems: Low-Complexity Iterative Im-

plementations. In ITG-Fachtagung Photonische Netze, Leipzig, Germany, May

2016.

[21] George Yammine, Robert F.H. Fischer. Soft-Decision Decoding in Noncoherent

Massive MIMO Systems. In Proceedings of International ITG/IEEE Workshop onSmart Antennas (WSA), Mar. 2016.

[22] George Yammine, Robert F.H. Fischer. Performance/Complexity Comparison of

SVD vs. SURV for Subspace Estimation in Noncoherent Massive MIMO. In In-ternational Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Bologna,

Italy, Aug. 2017.

Publications by Prof. Minker’s Group


[1] Florian Nothdurft, Stefan Ultes, and Wolfgang Minker. User-centred spoken di-

alogue management. In Stefan Ultes, Florian Nothdurft, Tobias Heinroth, and

Wolfgang Minker, editors, Next Generation Intelligent Environments, pages 265–

294. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

[2] Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, and Wolfgang Minker. Recurrent neural network

interaction quality estimation. In Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock, editors,

Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, pages

381–393. Springer Singapore, Singapore, 2017.

[3] Gaëtan Pruvost, Tobias Heinroth, Yacine Bellik, and Wolfgang Minker. User in-

teraction adaptation within ambient environments. In Next Generation IntelligentEnvironments, pages 221–263. Springer, 2016.

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[4] Maria Schmidt, Jan Niehues, and Alex Waibel. Towards an Open-Domain SocialDialog System, pages 271–278. Springer Singapore, Singapore, 2017.

[5] Roman Sergienko, Tatiana Gasanova, Eugene Semenkin, and Wolfgang Minker.

Collectives of Term Weighting Methods for Natural Language Call Routing, pages

99–110. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer International Publish-

ing Switzerland, January 2016.

[6] Maxim Sidorov, Kristina Brester, Stefan Ultes, and Alexander Schmitt. Salient

cross-lingual acoustic and prosodic features for english and german emotion

recognition. In Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock, editors, Dialogues withSocial Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, pages 159–169. Springer

Singapore, Singapore, 2017.

[7] Stefan Ultes, Hüseyin Dikme, and Wolfgang Minker. Dialogue Management

for User-Centered Adaptive Dialogue. In Alexander Rudnicky, Antoine Raux,

Ian Lane, and Teruhisa Misu, editors, Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, pages 51–61. Springer, Cham, 2016.

[8] Stefan Ultes, Florian Nothdurft, Tobias Heinroth, and Wolfgang Minker, editors.

Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems. Springer

International Publishing, 2nd edition edition, 2016.

[9] Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt, and Wolfgang Minker. Analysis of temporal fea-

tures for interaction quality estimation. In Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock,

editors, Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation,

pages 367–379. Springer Singapore, Singapore, 2017.


[1] Oleg Akhtiamov, Roman Sergienko, and Wolfgang Minker. An approach to off-

talk detection based on text classification within an automatic spoken dialogue

system. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics inControl, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2016), volume 2, pages 288–293,

July 2016.

[2] Aleksandar Andonov, Maria Schmidt, Jan Niehues, and Alex Waibel. Using

tweets as "ice-breaking" sentences in a social dialog system. In Speech Com-munication; 12. ITG Symposium, pages 1–5, Oct 2016.

[3] Lucas Bechberger, Maria Schmidt, Alex Waibel, and Marcello Federico. Person-

alized news event retrieval for small talk in social dialog systems. In SpeechCommunication; 12. ITG Symposium, pages 120–124, Oct 2016.

[4] Gregor Behnke, Florian Nielsen, Marvin Schiller, Pascal Bercher, Matthias Kraus,

Wolfgang Minker, Birte Glimm, and Susanne Biundo. Sloth–the interactive work-

out planner. ICCT, 2017.

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[5] Patricia Braunger, Hansjörg Hofmann, Steffen Werner, and Maria Schmidt. A

comparative analysis of crowdsourced natural language corpora for spoken dia-

log systems. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on LanguageResources and Evaluation (LREC), Portorož, Slovenia, 2016. European Language

Resources Association (ELRA).

[6] Patricia Braunger, Wolfgang Maier, Jan Wessling, and Steffen Werner. Natural

language input for in-car spoken dialog systems: How natural is natural? In Pro-ceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourseand Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2017.

[7] Kristina Brester, Olga Semenkina, and Maxim Sidorov. Multi-objective genetic

algorithms as an effective tool for feature selection in the speech-based emotion

recognition problem. Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University, 17(1):27–

35, March 2016.

[8] Johannes M. Kraus, Florian Nothdurft, Philipp Hock, David Scholz, Wolfgang

Minker, and Martin Baumann. Human after all: Effects of mere presence and

social interaction of a humanoid robot as a co-driver in automated driving. In

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfacesand Interactive Vehicular Applications Adjunct, pages 129–134. ACM, 2016.

[9] Georgios Meditskos, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Stefanos

Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, and Leo Wanner. Towards an ontology-driven

adaptive dialogue framework. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshopon Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pages 15–20.

ACM, 2016.

[10] Juliana Miehle, Ilker Bagci, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes. A social compan-

ion and conversation partner for elderly. In Proceedings of the 8th InternationalWorkshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), June 2017.

[11] Juliana Miehle, Nadine Gerstenlauer, Daniel Ostler, Hubertus Feußner, Wolfgang

Minker, and Stefan Ultes. An intelligent digital assistant for clinical operating

rooms. In Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmaticsof Dialogue (SEMDIAL), pages 164–165, August 2017.

[12] Juliana Miehle, Daniel Ostler, Nadine Gerstenlauer, and Wolfgang Minker. The

next step: intelligent digital assistance for clinical operating rooms. InnovativeSurgical Sciences, 2(3):159–161, 2017.

[13] Juliana Miehle, Koichiro Yoshino, Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Satoshi Naka-

mura, and Wolfgang Minker. Cultural communication idiosyncrasies in human-

computer interaction. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the SpecialInterest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pages 74–79, Los Angeles,

USA, September 2016. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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[14] Florian Nothdurft, Pascal Bercher, Gregor Behnke, and Wolfgang Minker. User

involvement in collaborative decision-making dialog systems. In Proceedings ofthe 7th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), January

2016.

[15] Florian Nothdurft, Frank Honold, and Wolfgang Minker. Temporal and spatial

design of explanations in a multimodal system. In HCI International 2016, Com-

munications in Computer and Information Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg,

2016.

[16] Louisa Pragst, Juliana Miehle, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes. Challenges

for adaptive dialogue management in the kristina project. In ISIAA 2017: Pro-ceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating So-cial Interactions with Artificial Agents, pages 11–14, New York, NY, USA, 2017.

ACM.

[17] Louisa Pragst, Juliana Miehle, Stefan Ultes, and Wolfgang Minker. Automatic

modification of communication style in dialogue management. In Proceedingsof the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural LanguageGeneration, pages 36–40. Association for Computational Linguistics, September

2016.

[18] Louisa Pragst, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes. Exploring the applicability of

elaborateness and indirectness in dialogue management. In Proceedings of the8th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), June 2017.

[19] Louisa Pragst, Koichiro Yoshino, Wolfgang Minker, Satoshi Nakamura, and Ste-

fan Ultes. Acquisition and assessment of semantic content for the generation of

elaborateness and indirectness in spoken dialogue systems. In Proceedings of theEighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume1: Long Papers), volume 1, pages 915–925, 2017.

[20] Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes. Interaction quality estimation

using long short-term memories. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting ofthe Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pages 164–

169. Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2017.

[21] Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, and Stefan Ultes. Towards an argumentative di-

alogue system. In Proceedings of 17th Workshop on Computational Models ofNatural Argument (CMNA’17), June 2017.

[22] Marvin Schiller, Gregor Behnke, Mario Schmautz, Pascal Bercher, Matthias

Kraus, Wolfgang Minker, Birte Glimm, and Susanne Biundo. A paradigm for

coupling procedural and conceptual knowledge in companion systems. ICCT,

2017.

[23] Roman Sergienko, Muhammed Shan, Wolfgang Minker, and Eugene Semenkin.

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Topic categorization based on collectives of term weighting methods for natural

language call routing. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Mathematics &Physics, (2):235–245, June 2016.

[24] Maxim Sidorov, Wolfgang Minker, and Eugene Semenkin. Speech-based emo-

tion recognition and speaker identification: Static vs. dynamic mode of speech

representation. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Mathematics & Physics,2016.

[25] Maxim Sidorov, Alexander Schmitt, Eugene Semenkin, and Wolfgang Minker.

Could speaker, gender or age awareness be beneficial in speech-based emotion

recognition? In Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Language Resources andEvaluation Conference (LREC 2016), May 2016.

[26] Anastasiya Spirina, Wolfgang Minker, and Maxim Sidorov. Could emotions be

beneficial for interaction quality modelling in human-human conversations? In

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue(TSD), August 2017.

[27] Anastasiya Spirina, Maxim Sidorov, Roman Sergienko, Eugene Semenkin, and

Wolfgang Minker. Human-human task-oriented conversations corpus for interac-

tion quality modeling. Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University, 17(1):84–

90, March 2016.

[28] Federico Sukno, Mónica Domínguez, Adria Ruiz, Dominik Schiller, Florian Lin-

genfelser, Louisa Pragst, Eleni Kamateri, and Stefanos Vrochidis. A multimodal

annotation schema for non-verbal affective analysis in the health-care domain.

In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis andRetrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pages 9–14. ACM, 2016.

[29] Stefan Ultes, Juliana Miehle, and Wolfgang Minker. On the applicability of a user

satisfaction-based reward for dialogue policy learning. In Proceedings of the 8thInternational Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), June 2017.

[30] Leo Wanner, Elisabeth André, Josep Blat, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Mireia Farrús,

Thiago Fraga, Eleni Kamateri, Florian Lingenfelser, Gerard Llorach, Oriol Mar-

tinez, Georgios Meditskos, Simon Mille, Wolfgang Minker, Louisa Pragst, Do-

minik Schiller, Andries Stam, Ludo Stellingwerff, Federico Sukno, Bianca Vieru,

and Stefanos Vrochidis. Kristina: A knowledge-based virtual conversation agent.

In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications ofAgents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS’17), June 2017.

[31] Leo Wanner, Elisabeth André, Josep Blat, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Mireia Farrús,

Thiago Fraga, Eleni Kamateri, Florian Lingenfelser, Gerard Llorach, Oriol Mar-

tinez, Georgios Meditskos, Simon Mille, Wolfgang Minker, Louisa Pragst, Do-

minik Schiller, Andries Stam, Ludo Stellingwerff, Federico Sukno, Bianca Vieru,

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and Stefanos Vrochidis. Design of knowledge-based agent as a social compan-

ion. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health and Social CareInformation Systems and Technologies (HCist), November 2017.

[32] Leo Wanner, Josep Blat, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Mónica Domínguez, Gerard Llo-

rach, Simon Mille, Federico Sukno, Eleni Kamateri, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Ste-

fanos Vrochidis, Elisabeth André, Florian Lingenfels, Gregor Mehlmann, Andries

Stam, Ludo Stellingwerff, Lori Lamel, Bianca Vieru, Wolfgang Minker, Louisa

Pragst, and Stefan Ultes. Towards a multimedia knowledge-based agent with so-

cial competence and human interaction capabilities. In Proceedings of the 1stInternational Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for MultimodalInteraction, pages 21–26. ACM, 2016.

Publications by Other Members of the Institute

[1] Alister Burr, Laurent Clavier, Goran Dimic, Tomaz Javornik, Werner G. Teich,

Mohamad Mostafa, and Joan Olmos. Evolved physical layer. In Narcis Cardona,

editor, Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments, pages

305–340. River Publishers, 2016.

[2] Mohamad Mostafa, Giuseppe Oliveri, Werner G. Teich, and Jürgen Lindner. A

continuous-time recurrent neural network for joint equalization and decoding -

analog hardware implementation aspects. In Joao Luis G. Rosa, editor, ArtificialNeural Networks - Models and Applications, chapter 04. InTech, Rijeka, 2016.

[3] Giuseppe Oliveri, Mohamad Mostafa, Werner G. Teich, Jürgen Lindner, and Her-

mann Schumacher. Advanced low power high speed nonlinear signal processing:

An analog vlsi example. Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 89(1):163–180,

Oct 2017.

[4] Giuseppe Oliveri, Mohamad Mostafa, Werner G. Teich, Jürgen Lindner, and Her-

mann Schumacher. Advanced low power, high speed nonlinear signal process-

ing: An analog vlsi example. In CA15104 4th MC and Scientific Meeting, Lund,

Sweden, May 2017.

[5] Martin Schüssel. Angle of arrival estimation using wifi and smartphones. In 7thInternational Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Oktober4-7 2016, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 2016.

[6] Martin Schüssel. Accurate distance tracking using wifi. In 8th International Con-ference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, September 18-21 2017,Sapporo Japan, 2017.

[7] Werner G. Teich. Low-power high-speed signal processing for future mobile

communication systems: From iterative algorithm to analog circuits. In Artificial

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Intelligence and Intelligent Technology Forum, November 2017.

[8] Werner G. Teich. Low-power high-speed signal processing: From iterative al-

gorithm to analog circuits. In Signal Processing and Communication Systems(ICSPCS), 2017 11th International Conference on, pages 1–1. IEEE, 2017.

[9] Werner G. Teich, Mennatallah A. Ibrahim, Florian Wäckerle, and Robert F.H.

Fischer. Equalization for fiber-optic transmission systems: Low-complexity itera-

tive implementations. In 17. ITG Fachtagung Photonische Netze, Proceedings of,Leipzig, Germany, May 2016. vde.

[10] Thanawat Thiasiriphet, W. G. Teich, and Jürgen Lindner. A novel comb filter

based rake-like receiver for code-reference uwb transmission. In 11th Interna-tional Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems; Proceed-ings of, 2017.

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6 Seminars

Kristian Villalobos Romo. Design and Implementation of a Software-Defined Ra-dio Communication System in C++, April 8, 2016.

Chethan Venkatesan. Non-Binary Polar Codes for Coded Modulation based onAlgebraic Signal Constellations, April 27, 2016.

Marijana Grujovic (Serbia). Software Implementation of a Simulator for codedOFDM Systems, June 02, 2016.

Daniel Valdivia De Nora. Efficient Algorithms for Solving the Shortest Indepen-dent Vector Problem, June 20, 2016.

Syed Tanveer Mujtaba Zaidi. Joint Optimization of Labeling and Partitioning inMulti-Stage Bit-Wise Coded Modulation, June 20, 2016.

Prof. Zoraida Callejas Carrión (University of Granada, Spain). The ConversationalInterface: Talking to Smart Devices, June 28, 2016.

Dr. Yingquan Wu (Micron Technology, USA). Generalized Integrated InterleavedCodes, July 19, 2016.

Dr. Yingquan Wu (Micron Technology, USA). New Scalable Decoder Architecturesfor Reed-Solomon Codes, July 20, 2016.

Prof. Sergo Shavgulidze (Georgian Technical University, Georgia). Future Devel-opment of IMT Systems, July 27, 2016.

Abobakr Abdellah. High-Order Voltage-Controlled Oscillator-Based Analog-to-Digital Converters, October 6, 2016.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Speidel (University of Auckland, New Zealand). T-codes andcyclic equivalences classes, October 18, 2016.

Yonatan Marin. Auslöschungskorrektur in Multimedia-Streaming mittels PartialUnit Memory Codes basierend auf Reed-Solomon Codes, November 7, 2016.

Michael Zurell. Implementierung eines Encoders und Decoders für Gabidulin-Codes, November 7, 2016.

Ilker Bagci. Konzeption und Modellierung eines Dialogs für die Nutzergruppe“Ältere”, November 14, 2016.

Jessalyn Bolkema (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States). The Tensor-likeJoin: A Factor Graph Construction for Polar Codes, November 22, 2016.

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Prof. Dr. Johan Rosenkilde (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark). EfficientPadé Approximations with Applications in Coding Theory, December 2, 2016.

Felix Frey. Analytical models of the fiber optical channel, December 16, 2016.

Matthias Kraus. Mixed-Initiative Intent Recognition Using Cloud-Based CognitiveServices, December 19, 2016.

Florian Delfanti. A Design Toolkit for Prototyping Analog-to-Digital Converters foruse in Simulink, January 9, 2017.

Matthias Estner. Analyse allgemeiner Schätzmethoden für Compressed Sensing,

April 3, 2017.

Jens Markus Zihsler Visuelles Grounding bei multilingualen Sprechern, April 24,

2017.

Benedikt Meinecke. Algorithmen für diskretes Compressed Sensing mit höherstu-figen Alphabeten, April 24, 2017.

Ranjith Ponnusamy. Using Rank-Metric Codes in MIMO Transmission Systems,April 24, 2017.

Felix Frey. Zeitbereichsdarstellung eines analytischen Glasfaser Kanalmodells,April 24, 2017.

Martin Herrmann. LTE in Mass Market UAV Scenarios, April 25, 2017.

Nadine Gerstenlauer. Controlling an Intelligent Operating Room with SpokenLanguage, June 19, 1017.

Alexander Tsaregorodtsev. Designing Concatenated BCH Codes for Applicationin Physical Unclonable Functions, July 20, 2017.

Kirill Dzuba. Emotion Estimation from Semantic Content, September 18, 2017.

Sven Kahle. Multi-Block Interleaved Codes for Data-Storage Applications, Septem-

ber 27, 2017.

Rebekka Schulz. Code-Based Cryptology Using Moderate-Density Parity-CheckCodes, October 16, 2017.

Prince Attrams. Topic Switching Strategies in Cloud-Based Multi-Domain SpokenDialog Systems, October 16, 2017.

Lukas Zielinski. Konzept eines proaktiven sprachgestützten Lenkzeit-Assistentenfür LKW-Fahrer, October 23, 2017.

Veniamin Stukalov. Error Models in Physical Unclonable Functions, October 26,

2017.

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Liming Fan. Using Sequential Decoding for Key Regeneration in Physical Unclon-able Functions, November 20, 2017.

Saskia Langhammer. A Debating Ontology for Argumentative Dialogue Systeme,

November 27, 2017.

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Ultes (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom). Domain-inde-pendent user satisfaction reward establishment for dialogue policy learning, De-

cember 01, 2017.

Maximillian Fürholzer. Efficient Implementation of the Truncated SVD, December

04, 2017.

Nicolas Wagner. User-adaptive Statistical Dialogue Management using Open-Dial, December 11, 2017.

Stefanie Walz. Integrating the NAO robot into the OwlSpeak framework, Decem-

ber 11, 2017.

Kazuma Nagano. Investigation of cultural differences during searching on thebrowser, December 18, 2017.

Yuta Takahashi. Emotion recognition for inferring tourist satisfaction by using eyetracking, head motion sensing, and audio/video recording, December 18, 2017.

Kyoshiro Sugiyama. Modeling a Persona containing relevant world knowledge,

December 18, 2017.

Manuel Allgaier. Analyse, Bewertung und prototypische Entwicklung von Frame-works zur Entwicklung von Modellen für natürliches Sprachverstehen December

18, 2017.

Jhoiss Baloi. Helper Data Methods for Error Correction in PUFs, December 21,

2017.

Christian Ziegler. Effiziente Implementierung eines LDPC-Decoders, December

21, 2017.

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7 Ph.D. Theses

7.1 Supervised Ph.D. Theses

Helmut Lang. Optimisation and Evaluation of Software Support Systems, Institute

of Communications Engineering, Ulm University, 2016.

Reviewers: Prof. W. Minker, Prof. H.-P. Großmann.

Florian Nothdurft. User- and Situation-Adaptive Explanations in Dialogue Sys-tems, Institute of Communications Engineering, Ulm University, 2016.

Reviewers: Prof. W. Minker, Prof. S. Biundo-Stephan, Ulm University, Prof. K.

Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland.

David Viktor Kracht. Innovative Barcode-Konzepte für DNA-Sequenzierverfahrender zweiten Generation, Institute of Communications Engineering, Ulm Univer-

sity, 2016.

Reviewers: Prof. M. Bossert, Prof. D. Keim, University of Constance.

Dr. Roman Sergienko. Text Classification for Spoken Dialogue Systems, Institute

of Communications Engineering, Ulm University, 2016.

Reviewers: Prof. W. Minker, Jun. Prof. B. Glimm, Ulm University.

Maxim Sidorov. Automatic Recognition of Paralinguistic Information, Institute of

Communications Engineering, Ulm University, 2016.

Reviewers: Prof. W. Minker, Prof. S. Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Tech-

nology, Japan, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Prof. Y.N. Matveev, Bauman

Moscow State Technical University, Russia.

Mostafa Hosni Mohamed. Algebraic Decoding over Finite and Complex Fieldsusing Reliability Information, Institute of Communications Engineering, Ulm Uni-

versity, 2017.

Reviewers: Prof. M. Bossert, Prof. J. Freudenberger, Constance University of Ap-

plied Scienes.

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7.2 Co-Supervised Ph.D. Theses

Mark Poguntke. Abstrakte Interaktionsmodelle für die Integration in bestehendeBenutzerschnittstellen, Ulm University, 2016.

Reviewers: Prof. M. Weber, Prof. W. Minker.

Luma Issa Abdul-Kreem Al-Helli. Neural Mechanisms of Visual Perception UsingAddress-Event Representation, Ulm University, 2016.

Reviewers: Prof. H. Neumann, Prof. W. Minker.

Sven Reichel. Anwendungsübergreifende Dialoge durch Wissensbasen und Task-modelle, Ulm University, 2017.


Felix Schüssel. Multimodal Input Fusion for Companion Technology, Ulm Uni-

versity, 2017.


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8 Theses

8.1 Master Theses

[1] Abobakr Abdellah. High-Order Voltage-Controlled Oscillator-Based Analog-to-Digital Converters. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: George Yammine; Reviewer:

Prof. R. Fischer, Sep. 2016.

[2] Manuel Allgaier. Analyse, Bewertung und prototypische Entwicklung von Frame-works zur Entwicklung von Modellen für natürliches Sprachverstehen. Master’s

thesis, Supervisor: André Berton; Reviewer: Prof. W. Minker, Dec. 2017.

[3] Prince Attrams. Topic Switching Strategies in Cloud-Based Multi-Domain SpokenDialog Systems. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Matthias Kraus; Reviewer: Prof. W.

Minker, Nov. 2017.

[4] Youssef Dawoud. Coding for Ultra-Reliable low-latency Train-to-Train Communi-cation System. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Mohammad Soliman; Reviewer: Prof.

U. Fiebig, 2017.

[5] Kirill Dzuba. Emotion Estimation from Semantic Content. Master’s thesis, Super-

visor: Louisa Pragst; Reviewer: Prof. W. Minker, Sep. 2017.

[6] Liming Fan. Using Sequential Decoding for Key Regeneration in Physical Unclon-able Functions. Master’s thesis, Supervisors: Sven Müelich and Sven Puchinger;

Reviewer: Prof. M. Bossert, Nov. 2017.

[7] Martin Herrmann. LTE in Mass Market UAV Scenarios. Master’s thesis, Supervisor

and Reviewer: Prof. U. Fiebig, May 2017.

[8] Matthias Kraus. Mixed-Initiative Intent Recognition Using Cloud-Based Cogni-tive Services. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Florian Nothdurft; Reviewer: Prof. W.

Minker, Dec. 2016.

[9] Benedikt Meinecke. Algorithmen für diskretes Compressed Sensing mit höherstu-figen Alphabeten. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Susanne Sparrer; Reviewer: Prof.

R. Fischer, Apr. 2017.

[10] Daniel Valdivia De Nora. Efficient Algorithms for Solving the Shortest Indepen-dent Vector Problem. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Sebastian Stern; Reviewer:

Prof. R. Fischer, May 2016.

[11] Ranjith Ponnusamy. Using Rank-Metric Codes in MIMO Transmission Systems.Master’s thesis, Supervisors: Sebastian Stern and Sven Puchinger; Reviewer: Prof.

R. Fischer, Apr. 2017.

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[12] Kristian Villalobos Romo. Design and Implementation of a Software-DefinedRadio Communication System in C++. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Sebastian

Stern; Reviewer: Prof. R. Fischer, Apr. 2016.

[13] Veniamin Stukalov. Error Models in Physical Unclonable Functions. Master’s the-

sis, Supervisors: Sven Müelich and Sven Puchinger; Reviewer: Prof. M. Bossert,

Oct. 2017.

[14] Chethan Venkatesan. Non-Binary Polar Codes for Coded Modulation based onAlgebraic Signal Constellations. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Sebastian Stern; Re-

viewer: Prof. R. Fischer, Apr. 2016.

[15] Nicolas Wagner. User-adaptive Statistical Dialogue Management using Open-Dial. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Juliana Miehle; Reviewer: Prof. W. Minker,

Dec. 2017.

[16] Syed Tanveer Mujtaba Zaidi. Joint Optimization of Labeling and Partitioningin Multi-Stage Bit-Wise Coded Modulation. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Florian

Wäckerle; Reviewer: Prof. R. Fischer, June 2016.

[17] Lukas Zielinski. Konzept eines proaktiven sprachgestützten Lenkzeit-Assistentenfür LKW-Fahrer. Master’s thesis, Supervisor: Ute Ehrlich; Reviewer: Prof. W.

Minker, Nov. 2017.

[18] Jens Markus Zihsler. Visuelles Grounding bei multilingualen Sprechern. Master’s

thesis, Supervisor: Ute Ehrlich; Reviewer: Prof. W. Minker, May 2017.

8.2 Bachelor Theses

[1] Ilker Bagci. Konzeption und Modellierung eines Dialogs für die Nutzergruppe“ältere”. Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisor: Juliana Miehle; Reviewer: Prof. W.

Minker, Nov. 2016.

[2] Jhoiss Paulo Baloi. Helper Data Methods for Error Correction in Physical Unclen-able Functions. Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisor: Sven Müelich; Reviewer: Prof. M.

Bossert, Dec. 2017.

[3] Florian Delfanti. A Design Toolkit for Prototyping Analog-to-Digital Convertersfor use in Simulink. Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisor: George Yammine; Reviewer:

Prof. R. Fischer, Dec. 2016.

[4] Matthias Estner. Analyse allgemeiner Schätzmethoden für Compressed Sensing.

Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisor: Susanne Sparrer; Reviewer: Prof. R. Fischer, May

2017.

[5] Maximillian Fürholzer. Efficient Implementation of the Truncated SVD. Bache-

lor’s thesis, Supervisor: George Yammine; Reviewer: Prof. R. Fischer, Nov. 2017.

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[6] Nadine Gerstenlauer. Controlling an Intelligent Operating Room with SpokenLanguage. Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisor: Juliana Miehle; Reviewer: Prof. W.

Minker, May 2017.

[7] Sven Kahle. Multi-Block Interleaved Codes for Data-Storage Applications. Bach-

elor’s thesis, Supervisors: Sven Puchinger and Michael Schelling; Reviewer: Prof.

M. Bossert, Nov. 2017.

[8] Saskia Langhammer. A Debating Ontology for Argumentative Dialogue Sys-teme. Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisor: Niklas Rach; Reviewer: Prof. W. Minker,

Nov. 2017.

[9] Yonatan Marin. Auslöschungskorrektur in Multimedia-Streaming mittels PartialUnit Memory Codes basierend auf Reed-Solomon Codes. Bachelor’s thesis, Su-

pervisors: Sven Müelich and Sven Puchinger; Reviewer: Prof. M. Bossert, Oct.

2016.

[10] Rebekka Schulz. Code-Based Cryptology Using Moderate-Density Parity-CheckCodes. Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisor: Sven Müelich; Reviewer: Prof. M. Bossert,

Nov. 2017.

[11] Alexander Tsaregorodtsev. Designing Concatenated BCH Codes for Applicationin Physical Unclonable Functions. Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisors: Sven Müelich

and Michael Schelling; Reviewer: Prof. M. Bossert, Sep. 2017.

[12] Stefanie Walz. Integrating the NAO robot into the OwlSpeak framework. Bache-

lor’s thesis, Supervisor: Juliana Miehle; Reviewer: Prof. W. Minker, Dec. 2017.

[13] Michael Zurell. Implementierung eines Encoders und Decoders für Gabidulin-Codes. Bachelor’s thesis, Supervisors: Sebastian Stern and Sven Puchinger; Re-

viewer: Prof. R. Fischer, Nov. 2016.

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9 Academics

The members of the institute are active in various committees and at the university

self-administration.

Prof. Martin Bossert

Member of Leopoldina, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften

DFG-Fachkollegiat Nachrichtentechnik

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science, and Psychology (until

Sep. 2015)

Program Director of the International Master Course “Communications Technol-ogy” (since Sep. 2016)

Head of Promotionsausschuss Dr.-Ing.

Member of Commission VDE Colloquium

Member of ITG-Fachausschuss 5.1 Informations- und Systemtheorie

Prof. Robert Fischer

Dean of Studies (Engineering) of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science,

and Psychology (since Oct. 2015)

Program Director of the International Master Course “Communications Technol-ogy” (June 2014–August 2016)

Head of the Admission Board for the International Master Course “Communica-tions Technology” (since Sep. 2014)

Head of Habilitationsausschuss

Member of kiz-Ausschuss

Member of Selection Commitee for the Argus Award

Member of ITG-Fachausschuss 5.1 Informations- und Systemtheorie

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Prof. Wolfgang Minker

Head of Industrial Internship Office

Member of Admission Board of the joint B.Sc./M.Sc. Programme “Informations-systemtechnik”

Member of GUC Advisory Board

Dr. Werner Teich

Academic Advisor “Elektrotechnik”, “Informationssystemtechnik”, and “Commu-nications Technology’

Erasmus Incoming Students Advisor

Member of Studienkommission “Informationssystemtechnik”

Member of Fachprüfungsausschüsse der ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Studien-gänge “Elektrotechnik”, “Communications Technology” and “Sensorsystem-technik”

Member of Fachprüfungsausschuss “Informationssystemtechnik”

Member of Admission Boards for the Master Courses “Elektrotechnik”, “Informa-tionssystemtechnik”, and the International Master Course “Communications Tech-nology”

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